Slooh for Schools Classroom Activities

Bring
the wonders of the night sky into your classroom - LIVE! Slooh
Online Observatory allows you to observe and take pictures of celestial
objects right from your own computer. And because they have telescopes
on the other side of the world, night falls on these telescopes
while it is still afternoon in the US.

Slooh
and the ASP have partnered to bring you these classroom activities
that inspire and excite your students with technology, hands-on
learning, and real science experiments using professional telescopes
from your own computer.

Virtual
Venus
This activity combines kinesthetic learning, active investigation,
history, and of course observing to teach your students about the
Solar System. Adaptable for grades 5 -12 and beyond, this activity
follows Galileo's investigation into the phases of Venus.

Life
Cycle of Stars
Students in grades 9-12 analyze characteristics that indicate human
life cycles, and then apply these observational principles to various
NASA pictures of stars to synthesize patterns of stellar life cycles.
They are than able to take their own pictures using Slooh live online
observatory. Adapted from a CERES activity.

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need your participation! Donations are 100% tax deductible and will
go towards the development of freely accessible materials, workshops,
a supporting website, live programming for schools, and promotion
of the project. Help
us advance science literacy through astronomy!